Axus or Axos (Ancient Greek: Ἄξος), also Oaxus or Oaxos (Ὄαξος) and Waxus or Waxos (Ϝάξος), was a city and polis (city-state) of ancient Crete. According...

in the Diktaion cave by the Nymph Ankhiale as she clutched the earth of Oaxos [in Krete] with both her hands." Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia, Book...

In Greek mythology, Oaxes or Oaxos (Ancient Greek: Ὄαξος) was the founder of the town of Oaxus within Crete, a place known to Servius and Herodotus. He...

Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, p. 4 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Oaxos (Ὄαξος) Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1492 Pausanias, 10.16.5 Antoninus...

Etearchus was the King of the ancient Cretan city of Axus or Oaxos, flourishing in the early 7th century BC. According to Herodotus, at one point Etearchus...

Axus may refer to: Axus or Axos, Oaxus or Oaxos, Waxus or Waxos, a city and polis (city-state) of ancient Crete Benjamin Axus (born 1994), French judoka...

villagers from the village Axos, which is west of Anogia, where the Minoan city Oaxos was. According to a legend, a shepherd from Axos found one day on one of...

the village had 385 residents. It contains remains of the ancient city of Oaxo or Axo (in Greek, Ὄαξος, Ϝάξος or Ἄξος). The city's name is documented on...

have been proposed as having Cretan origin (Gortynia - Gortys, Axius - Oaxos, Europos - Europa etc.) but nothing is conclusive. Various origins have...